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ROCKER HYNDE ROOTS FOR WEST'S LOSS AGAINST IRAQ: 'GIVE US WHAT WE DESERVE!'...
SFGate.com ^
| 3-5-03
| Neva Chonin, Chronicle Pop Music Critic
Posted on 03/05/2003 12:53:30 PM PST by EggsAckley
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Ten songs into the Pretenders' Saturday show at the Warfield, singer- guitarist Chrissie Hynde pithily summed up her group's enduring appeal and, in the process, the appeal of rock music as a whole.
"I think our band represents all the great losers of the world," she told a cheering sold-out crowd. "Because it's all about the losing." With that, she handed off her guitar, grabbed the microphone and led the Pretenders into the power ballad/anti-anthem "The Losing," off their 2002 album, "Loose Screw."
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To: EggsAckley
Who are these people. Never heard of them.
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posted on
03/05/2003 1:32:29 PM PST
by
blam
To: EggsAckley
Blech. Never liked the Pretenders - music or looks. Chick needs a haircut.
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posted on
03/05/2003 1:33:29 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: EggsAckley
son when does the CD burning party begin?
To: bassmaner
Rush had better change his bumper music.A few years ago, he was NOT allowed to play it, that lasted a couple of weeks as I remember, and Rush said that they were working out a deal.
To: EggsAckley
More proof that after 50, we all tend to get the face we deserve.
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posted on
03/05/2003 3:30:24 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(Clinton Legacy = 16-acre hole in the ground in lower Manhattan)
To: EggsAckley
gave a shout-out to the late Joe Strummer, opined that she hopes the United States loses if it goes to war with IraqJoe Strummer was very pro-America (Bombs over Baghdad, anyone?)
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posted on
03/05/2003 3:33:23 PM PST
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: NYC GOP Chick
"More proof that after 50, we all tend to get the face we deserve." LOL! YOU got that RIGHT....look at Hillary....
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posted on
03/05/2003 3:48:49 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Thank the Military for your freedom and security....and thank a Rich person for jobs.)
To: mabelkitty
I'll check my hard drive maybe I can delete a couple of mp3s
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posted on
03/05/2003 4:08:27 PM PST
by
latrans
To: EggsAckley
Celebrity Hawks Bruce Willis, Brian McKnight, Kid Rock, Rob Lowe and Jean-Claude Van Damme are saying things that are undoubtedly making the anti-war crowd steam. On the other hand, the celebrity rhetoric that's coming out of these guys is warming the hearts of the kick-Saddam's-butt bunch.
According to the New York Daily News, Willis seriously thought about enlisting in the U.S. armed services.
Singer Brian McKnight told MSNBC, "If we do go to war ... I'm going to support whatever President Bush decides to do."
Kid Rock colorfully expressed his views by saying, "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam. Slit his throat."
Rob Lowe, Sheen's former co-star on "The West Wing," told Fox News Channel that Americans should support our armed forces, and that the best way to do that was to support our commander-in-chief.
And action movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme told Globe magazine, "Some of those in Hollywood are part of the axis of ignorance!"
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posted on
03/05/2003 4:15:55 PM PST
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
("He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling." Gandalf)
To: goodnesswins
I resent that!!
I'll be FIFTY-ONE next week, and I still look like I'm in my twenties.
Well, sort of.
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posted on
03/05/2003 4:19:14 PM PST
by
daler
To: daler
YEAH...me too (look like I'm still in my 20's, sort of...LOL)
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posted on
03/05/2003 4:28:25 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Thank the Military for your freedom and security....and thank a Rich person for jobs.)
To: TomServo
To: Las Vegas Dave
We should demand of Rush that he dump that bumper music.
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posted on
03/05/2003 6:31:56 PM PST
by
0scill8r
To: EggsAckley
I'd like to give HER what she deserves... but it looks like she already got it.
To: Rain-maker
LOL!! Love the fish!
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Rob Lowe, Sheen's former co-star on "The West Wing," told Fox News Channel that Americans should support our armed forces, and that the best way to do that was to support our commander-in-chief. And action movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme told Globe magazine, "Some of those in Hollywood are part of the axis of ignorance!"
Wow, I'm impressed. This is more than I would have expected from these guys, especially the French one.
To: EggsAckley
Was always a huge Pretenders fan (two down, two to go?), and vividly remember being in the front row at PSU in 80 or 81 as Chrissie and the gang played our favorite tunes. My buddy Al offered Pete Farndon a Winston, and then threw up the requested doobie, right before he took his wad of chewing gum and stuck it on the nearest speaker. The music was great, we were partying, and Chrissie was hot.
Now I'm a 41 year old father, and still love the music. So of course I enjoy the talents of liberal schmucks whose claim to fame is musical talent, or the ability to pretend they're someone else, while ridiculing their anti-war stances and inability to understand some basic truths. To whit:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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posted on
03/05/2003 8:51:38 PM PST
by
If6was9
To: Motherhood IS a career
I thought Jean Claude was Belgian. (Or were you making some joke that went over my head?)
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posted on
03/05/2003 8:54:40 PM PST
by
Gunder
To: zacharycole
Yikes! She looks like Alice Cooper!I see no reason to insult Alice Cooper!!
To: latrans
I'll check my hard drive maybe I can delete a couple of mp3s
On the contrary.
What you need to do is find every Pretenders song you can and put them ON you hard drive. Then share them to the world so no one else needs to BUY them.
That's how you cut their source of funding...
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